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Eric Gardner, Manager Who Steered Careers of Todd Rundgren, Cassandra Peterson, Paul Shaffer and Other Stars, Dies at 74


Eric Gardner, whose Panacea management clients included Todd Rundgren, Cassandra 'Elvira' Peterson and Paul Shaffer, has died at 74

Eric Gardner, a producer and talent manager whose famous clients included Todd Rundgren, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson, Paul Shaffer and many others, died July 19 at age 74. Musicians he represented at different points in his career included Timothy Leary, Richard Belzer, Bettye LaVette, Grace Jones, Richard Chamberlain, the Rolling Stones’ Bill Wyman, Kenney Jones (of the Who and Faces fame), John Lydon and the Sex Pistols, Jefferson Starship, Donny Osmond, Pink Floyd’s Rick Wright, Steven Van Zandt and Max Weinberg of the E Street Band, the Stray Cats and Blue Oyster Cult. Film and TV projects on which he served as an executive producer ranged from Julien Temple’s Sex Pistols documentary “The Filth and the Fury” to the David Hasselhoff reality series “Hoff the Record.”

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